Sharp County record., 1887-08-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! lie lands.
EFFORTS are being made to get DR.. s. A.
Richmond. of st. Joseph, Mo, out OF the
! insane ASYLUM. DR.. Richmond Killed
! Colonel James W. StropS as 81. joseph.
THE National encampmeIt Ui :se Sons Oh
Veterans commenced at Des Moines-. Ia,
ON the 10Th. Many prominent membAss OF
the order from Eastern States were in At-
tendance.
Mrs. GEORGE GOULD presented her hu1
baud With a son at the family residence il
New York on the evening Of the l4th.
Mother and son we're doing well.
THE body of E. B. Dowles, the New YORK
LAWYER, drowned off the Quebec boat last
week, was found on the 10th within half
mile of the spot where the accident oc-
| Cured.
JOHN R. DUNN, a New York lawyer, is in
Ludlow Street jail for alleged sWlndllng
on large scale.
THE breweries of C. Stengel, F. Kraus,
F. Schwaab and G.. Reitter in Philadelphia,
have been seized by the internal revenue
collector for irregularities in bookkeeping
by which the Government is alleged to
have been defrauded of taxes.
JESSE DUKES, a negro editor of Mont
gomery, Ala, has been ordered out OF town
for an offensive publication.
A HORRIBLE murder and robbery oc-
Cured on the night of the 10Th, near Fred
ericksburg, Washington County, Ind.
John HeiteI and Daniel Wyninger, long
time enemies, met on the turnpike, re-
newed their quarrel and finally ended 1t
by Heitel stabbing Wyninger to death
with huge butcher knife. Heitel then
robbed the dead man of g, coo and fed.
TEN large icehouses and six freight cars
we're destroyed by fire at Burtis bay on
Chautauqua lake, N. Y, on the 10th, in
volving a loss of $4,000. The flames orig
| mated in the engine-house. The ice
houses were owned by Colonel G. s. Bar
rett, of Cleveland, o. The ice was the
property of the Chautauqua Lake Ice
| Company of Pittsburgh. The property de-
! stroyed is insured for S17,5OO.
| APPLICATIONS for the prepayment Of in
| terest were received at the Treasury De-
partment on the 10Th from the holders OF
| So, ,096, 200 of bonds, making total to date
! of S61, ,O96. $50. The interest will be sent out
as fast as possible.
THE Pacific Mail Company proposes to
reduce its capital stock one-half.
RUSSIA has filed with the Porte pro-
test against Prince Ferdinand.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD's sinking-fund
enterprise is considered a success.
THERE seems to be a general call for
Lord Harrington to enter the British
Cabinet.
LELAND STANFORD filed his answer in
the United States Court at San francisco
on the 18th to the petition of the Pacific
Railways Commission.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided that
Congress should be called upon to decide
whether or not the famous old battle-ship
Hartford shall be repaired or turned into
junk.
ERNEST SCHOELTzE, now at Au Sable,
Mich, tells frightful story of slavery and
ilI-treatment in Yucatan.
The lady recently arrested at Cowes,
Isle of Wight, as dynamiter, now wants
damages for it.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State con-
vention. on the 18th, nominated W. B. Hart
for State Treasurer, Henry W. Williams
for Supreme Judge, and adopted a plat
form. one feature of which is Endorsement
of Blaine.
THE offers for the sale of four and one
half per cent. bonds to the Government
received at the Treasury Department
amount to 1926, $50. The rates ranged
from 500 to $40. The majority were Of
fered at the latter figure.
The President has recognized FREDERICK
H. Baelen as Counsel General of Chilli in
the United States.
A RAILWAY wreck occurred on the Balti-
more & Ohio at Washington, on the 18th,
in which Engineer Hamilton Brosius was
killed and about fifteen persons injured.
TWELVE hundred and fifty members OF
German war veterans associations arrived
at Metz on the 18th and proceeded to the
battle-felds Of 1870, where they decorated
the graves of their slain comrades.
CHARLES PAGE, who swindled the
JACQUES Cartier Bank at Montreal, Can,
out of S25 900, was arrested on the evening
of the 18th at Versailles, Que, about
eighteen miles from the border line. All
the money was found n his possession.
CHARLEY PARKER, the cowboy who
robbed Paymaster Bush, of the United
States army, of $1,000 at Hay Springs in
February last, was captured on the 18th at
Candy, N. Y, by the sheriff of Logan
County. He had 81 200 on his person.
IT has Just been learned that package
sent from Omaha by the Pacific Express
on the 10Th, was lost between Green River,
Wyoming, and Pocatelli, Idaho, contain
ing 1000 s. bills. IL was stolen from the
car. No clew. The employees are not sus-
pected.
! IT is again reported, TO the French Gov
ernment this time, that Stanley mas been
deserted by his escort and killed by natives
in Africa.
SHERIFF CHARLES LYNCH of Alpena,
Mich, died on the 18th at the Detroit
Sanitarium from a shot-wound in the leg,
inflicted by the notorious "Blinkey" Nor
gan. Sheriff Lynch planned and carried
out the scheme to capture "Blinkey" Nor
gan and others, alleged to be the murder
ers of Detective Hulligan, 81 Cleveland.
THE Western Passenger Association met
at Chicago on the 18th and decided to adj
here to the rate for the Grand Army re-
union at st. Louis next month at single
fare on roads west and northwest Of Mis-
souri, river, as already agreed upon. The
roads from Chicago to st. Louis will make
a rate of one cent, to meet the rate fixed
by the Central Traffic Association.
A RATE war is threatened among rail-
roads centering in Minneapolis.
IT has been decided by the British Cab